Jon Brazer Enterprises has taken a simple idea and turned it into a
convenient tool for the rushed referee.

On the Shelf

The black cover is centered around a large graphic of a
starship-over-planet scene. Below the graphic are the Foreven Free
Sector logo and the Traveller Compatible
Product logo; above is the Jon Brazer Enterprises logo (done in black
with a dark-green ‘glow’) and the product title. The ‘d66’ is rendered
as the letter ‘d’ followed by two die images displaying the six side,
rather than as numerals.

Initial Impression

The book is laid out well; with comparatively large type and
alternating grey and white bands in the lists, it is not at all
difficult to read. Most pages have two lists per page; several have only
one list and some artwork (but the list items are long enough to
preclude putting a second list on the page), and a very few pages –
basically, just the first page of a section – are essentially full-page
art.

On Closer Inspection

The individual lists are generally unexciting, and ‘prosaic’ would
not be inappropriate for some. Few of the entries provoke sufficient
interest in and of themselves to cause players to ask ‘what is that?’;
it is left up to the referee to establish the context to provoke such
questions. Arguably, that’s the right place for it, but would a referee
who feels the need to use a product like this feel himself generally to
be in a position to expand upon a mere three-word description? For some
of the lists – especially some of the ‘ethnic’ name lists – the player
or referee that is familiar with the Traveller
canon in some detail could question the sources for the lists, but this
doesn’t really detract from the utility of the product.

Summary

One can play Traveller, and one can
play withTraveller. Those who do
the latter probably don’t need a product like this; in fact, they’re the
ones that are most likely to create such products. Nevertheless, for the
referee who seeks to minimize the time preparing for an adventure, or
who suddenly finds himself at a loss for a name or an item of some sort,
lists and compilations of lists like this can be quite useful. On that
basis, the sheer number of lists makes this a good value.